The Director of the Center shall award grants for the establishment of general clinical research centers to provide the infrastructure for clinical research including clinical research training and career enhancement. Such centers shall support clinical studies and career development in all settings of the hospital or academic medical center involved.
In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of National Institutes of Health shall expand the activities of the general clinical research centers through the increased use of telecommunications and telemedicine initiatives.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 481B, formerly § 481C, as added Pub. L. 106–505, title II, § 204(a), Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2327; amended Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 103(b)(42), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3688; renumbered § 481D, Pub. L. 110–170, § 2(b), Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 2466; renumbered § 481B and amended Pub. L. 112–74, div. F, title II, § 221(c)(4), Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 1089.)
